Ellise Shafer Gary Oldman took the opportunity to clarify his comments about his acting in the “Harry Potter” franchise during the Cannes press conference for his new film, “Parthenope,” on Wednesday.
When asked about a prior comment in which he disses his performance as Sirius Black as “mediocre,” Oldman said he didn’t mean to “disparage anyone out there who are fans of ‘Harry Potter’ and the films and the character who I think is much beloved.” “What I meant by that is, as any artist or any actor or painter, you are always hypercritical of your own work,” he continued. “If you’re not, and you’re satisfied with what you’re doing, that would be death to me.
If I watched a performance of myself and thought, ‘My God, I’m fantastic in this,’ that would be a sad day.” He continued, “There was such secrecy that was shrouded around the novels, they were under lock and key.
And had I known from the very beginning, if I had read the five books and I had seen the arc of the character, I might have approached it differently.
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